After that, confronting the government's own large waste and tightening the municipal belt must have seemed like a cinch.
But the damage to the New York City area, averaged over the next 2,500 years, would be only 5percentt of that confronting Los Angeles.
Accused of mistreating their women and proliferating with devious rapidity, and goaded to abandon their religious and cultural baggage, many Jews in the 19th century paid an even higher cost of "integration" than that confronting Muslims today in France.
However, it's easy to understand that, confronting such a complex immunosuppressive microenvironment, strategies targeting one or two inhibitory signals have only limited effects on therapeutic efficacy.
Kernberg argued that confronting, doubting, and pathologizing the narcissist was the only way to win.
Israel has long argued that confronting Iran ought to be an international priority.
Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror.
On a visit to Mexico in April Mr Obama accepted that confronting violent drug traffickers was a "shared responsibility".
Republican and Democratic strategists alike say that confronting China can play effectively to an anxious public's sense of economic grievance.
China's leaders, however, still believe that confronting North Korea on such issues might prompt Mr Kim to become more bellicose.
Watching "Veronica Guerin," one gets the impression that confronting thugs in person is what journalism consists of.
